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Professorial Fellow in Monetary Policy and Financial Economics

Professor Eric Leeper
2008 Professorial Fellow in Monetary Policy and Financial Economics

Brief biography

Eric Leeper is a Professor of Economics at the Indiana University. He also holds positions as a director of the Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Research at the Indiana University, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, External Advisor to the Sveriges Riksbank, and he has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board.

His area of expertise covers monetary theory and policy, and interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. He has published extensively in top academic journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, or Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Eric’s detailed Curriculum Vitae can be found on his personal webpage http://mypage.iu.edu/~eleeper/

Eric will be the visiting Fellow from 29 September to 30 November 2008.

2008 – Itinerary

29th September

Prof Leeper arrives in Wellington

9th October

Reserve Bank Workshop

24th October

Victoria University Seminar

30th October

Auckland Corporate Event

31st October

University of Auckland Event

3rd November

Corporate event in Wellington

7th November

Visit to Otago

10th November

Visit to Canterbury

12th November

Public Lecture (Wellington)

14th November

Victoria University Seminar

30th November

Prof Leeper departs Wellington

For queries about Eric Leeper’s visit, please contact Sue O'Donnell (Sue.ODonnell@ vuw.ac.nz).